stockyard

Example Sentences

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He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

A former overnight stockyard worker, he collects, weighs and tags hams before pushing them into an industrial cooler.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2020

Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Grandin sees the plant layout as she speaks, adding the hand-cranked submarine doors gleaned from war movies, the pumps from every stockyard and farm she’s seen since she was a child.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013

To the intense irritation of Cornwall’s broker, they wound up having to accept rail cars filled with ethanol in some stockyard in Chicago—to make a sum of money that struck the broker as absurdly small.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis